Thoughtfully Ruthless

Appendix

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Ninety-Nine Ways to be Thoughtfully Ruthless With Your Time

1. Wear earphones so people who you don't want to talk to you, won't.
2. Stop activities, projects, and responsibilities faster than you start them.
3. Spend 50 percent of your time with your new hires in their first month.
4. Spend 10 percent of your time with the rising stars in your organization.
5. Intentionally dedicate time to your two- to three-year business focus.
6. Unfairly allocate your time, biasing toward your highest-performing individuals.
7. Rapidly tackle underperformance or mismatched employees; don't delay and don't overthink.
8. Schedule your to-do list into your calendar.
9. Plan your year every December: book holidays, experiences, family time, friends' time, couple time, and me time.
10. Find your PPP, your perfect productive places, where you are your most productive.
11. Become a squatter in different offices, buildings, coffee shops, or libraries to escape interruptions.
12. Only allow customers, clients, potential buyers, and your employees into your in-box. Auto-sort everything else into folders.
13. Start your day by writing down your goals for the day; place it visibly on your desk.
14. Let your team know your love/hate list for e-mail, phone calls, meetings, and messaging.
15. Do the “don't want to but need to” items at the start of every day.
16. Turn off the e-mail auto-send to your phone. ...